Name each carboxylic acid or ester.

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Hey everyone were asked provide the name for the following car box silic acid. Since we have a car box silic acid, this means our suffix is going to end in. Oh I see acid and we know that a car box silic acid is going to have a structure of our C 00 H R. Being our all kill chain in this case. And highlighting our car box silk acid. We can see it's right here to our right now let's go ahead and find our longest carbon chain. To find our longest carbon chain. We have to number our car box silic acid as number one. Since it will take priority for the structure. So counting this out, we can go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and seven. We can produce a seven carbon chain. Now if we had gone a different route we would get 12345 and six. We only produce a six carbon chain if we went downwards. So we're going to keep our seven carbon chain since it is the longest now since we have that seven carbon chain, this tells us that our prefix is going to be helped. So our base name is going to be hep to know eric acid. Now let's go ahead and look at our substitue ints. Looking at our substitue ints we can see that they're located at carbon number four and we can see that we have an ethyl group. So when we complete the name of this car box silic acid, this is going to be for ethel Hempton OIC acid. So I hope that made sense and let us know if you have any questions.

Name each carboxylic acid or ester.

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